Modestha Mensah and Aimee van Wynsberghe · 2025-04-25
This paper advocates for integrating Feminist African Ethics into Sustainable AI discourse to address the environmental and social injustices, particularly affecting African women, arising from AI’s carbon footprint, e-waste, and extractive lifecycles.
Modestha Mensah and Aimee van Wynsberghe. 2025-04-25. Sustainable AI Meets Feminist African Ethics. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43681-025-00705-9 (AI & Environment Resource Hub; record paper-274; collection snapshot 2026-09-15).
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In the Environmental Impacts of Data Centers 101 course, you will learn to analyze the environmental impacts of data centers using a life cycle assessment (LCA) perspective that goes beyond what you see in the news. This will include energy, water, land use, carbon emissions, global supply chains, e-waste concerns, ecological impacts, and environmental justice case studies. Whether you work in tech, sustainability, policy, or are just curious about how AI systems operate behind the scenes, this course gives you the clarity and frameworks to understand these impacts from end-to-end.
Nathaniel Burola
Shared topics: Cross-cutting sustainability; Governance and society; Climate and greenhouse gases; E-waste and circularity
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FAccT '25: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency
Shared topics: Cross-cutting sustainability; Governance and society; Climate and greenhouse gases; E-waste and circularity
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Shared topics: Cross-cutting sustainability; Governance and society; Climate and greenhouse gases; E-waste and circularity
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